The Glade 4.0

Just got back, I liked it. It was dirty though. Even Empire felt clean next to this one. It is the first time the Star Wars U felt grubby to me. As for the story...I was honestly expecting something closer to Ocean's Eleven, not the Dirty Dozen.

Tarkin had one flaw that I could see. He looked far too sinister. Also, that face would not have with stood the full power of a well lit room.

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Raell Kromwell

I thought the CGI was fine. If I hadn't read this thread, I might not have given it a second thought (at least in Tarkin's place, I didn't even know he was dead).

He was an old man 39 years ago when Star Wars came out. You wouldn't have needed to know he was dead to know there was some magic afoot.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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It's just not something I would have given any thought too.

I knew they got an actress who looked similar to Mon Mothma, I assumed they did the same for Tarkin. I thought maaaaybe he was touched up a little with CG, sort of like JGL in Looper. But that was it. Having no knowledge of the ful CG-ness beforehand didn't make it stand out to me.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I wish they'd get away from the idea of having to have a specific actor to play a specific role. There are thousands of actors in the world, and I'm sure they could have dug up one who looked roughly similar and could put his own take on the role.

Heck, Everyone's gonna look different anyway when they remake Ep. IV in ten years.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

They did get away from it, that's the point. Now you just need somebody who is roughly the appropriate dimensions. All they really need to do is get James Earl Jones in to recite the dictionary for a couple of weeks, and they can make any story they want involving Darth Vader forever, as long as they don't lose the audio files. And I suspect that the Disney Sound Archives look very similar to the Imperial Archives.

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Respectfully.

It was just **** awesome.

Love you [emoji16]

Finally saw it, it's the first movie that gives me the Star Wars glow since the OT. Force unleashed did well, but I had major issues with the story (and the un-finishedness of it, also known as the "JJAffect". So much of it seemed to be designed to set up VIII and IX that it did not feel like a complete film.)

This one did not have that problem. With it being Disney, I had serious doubts they were going to kill off the entire main cast, which I believe actually made it more impactful when it happened. The choice to not have a crawl, to not start with STAR WARS zooming away from the camera were definitely a calculated play to make this film stand alone, while fitting brilliantly as a lead-in to the OT. The grittier camerawork, the choice to pan from one battle to the other (as one ship crashes, simply panning to the ground battle instead of hard cutting between them like Jedi) made it feel much more connected and intense. Definitely my favorite Star Wars film since Jedi, and the aesthetic was perfectly executed, it felt unmistakably Star Wars, while still unique.

As a final note, Vader is finally a badass again! While his beatdown on Krennic was cheesy (but fun to see the evil Vader back in form), his Vorhees-esque moment at the end of the movie stole the show for me. Nice to see the character restored to his former terrifying glory after all this time.

You know, AT-ATs are so ridiculous as a combat weapon (especially as wide-spread as hover-technology is) that they AT LEAST need to be able to take a missile.

Right? "Hey guys, lets design a tank, but with WAY more instability and additional points of failure. Don't worry, it's going to look kind of like a camel! Worth it!"

If for some reason you need a walker design, they should have simply made a bigger, more heavily armored version of the AT-TE from the Clone Wars. It was inherently far more stable.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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After all of George Lucas' hard work to neuter Darth Vader, it was uplifting to see that he couldn't appear on camera without making someone **** themselves.

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Tarkin was distracting to me simply because of the CGI. It didn't look real to me at all.

BTW, Saw Gerrera was in The Clone Wars, some of the novels, and Rebels, and one of the astromech droids from Rebels (C1-10P "Chopper") was at the base on Yavin 4. I haven't seen those, so I guess I'll need to go back and watch everything.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Speaking of which...

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

In the audience or on screen.

It was meh. Lots of member berries. And apparently Jin (the only characters name i can remember) was such a terrible child, her mother would rather be shot by storm troopers than make sure she was raised by at least one of her parents.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Not to mention a total inability to protect its own sides and rear. Really, who needs that?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Star Wars is Fantasy, not Sci-Fi. Logic applies far less to fantasy.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

So, I just rewatched this.

It's better every time. So much detail.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I stayed out of this thread because I hadn't seen it until recently. I think I knew they did CGI for Leia, but that was it. I instantly knew Tarkin was CGI though. I think some of you just had too much blood draining into your crotch to be lucid enough for it.

I thought the movie was okay, but as a couple people mentioned, I just didn't really care much about too many of the characters. Also, without the Force being more prominent (the Asian wannabe dude just didn't cut it for me), it felt less Star Wars-y to me. I understand why it had to be that way given the timeline, but it still impacted my enjoyment of it as a Star Wars movie.

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